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Toledo Community Boathouse

Aerial view of a river with sailboats, a dock, a rowboat, cars parked alongside, and buildings.
Welcome Port Of Toledo Community Boathouses
A wooden boat workshop with people, tools, and a view of the water with boats through the open doorway.
A marina with a boat, paddle boarders, a small building, and people enjoying a sunny day on the water.
Wooden boats docked by a river, people on a sunny day, green trees in the background, and a clear blue sky.
People rowing boats in a harbor with industrial buildings in the background.
Aerial view of a river with sailboats, a dock, a rowboat, cars parked alongside, and buildings.
A wooden boat workshop with people, tools, and a view of the water with boats through the open doorway.
A marina with a boat, paddle boarders, a small building, and people enjoying a sunny day on the water.
Wooden boats docked by a river, people on a sunny day, green trees in the background, and a clear blue sky.
People rowing boats in a harbor with industrial buildings in the background.

Port Of Toledo Community Boathouses

Port of Toledo Marina 
367 SE Butler Bridge Rd, Toledo, OR, 97391

Free Family Boating, Thursday & Sunday Afternoons (see below)

The Toledo Community Boathouse program provides classroom and workshop space for youth and community members to learn and get hands-on experience with boatbuilding, maintenance, sailing and seamanship.  The program consists of two boathouses moored at the Port’s Marina, and is supported through generous community volunteers and grant funding.

Both boathouses were constructed by the Port of Toledo.  The first boathouse was built in 2010 by Port staff with funding from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund and the Lincoln County Economic Development Alliance.    The second boathouse was completed in 2017.  It was built with funding for new materials from the Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund, and used repurposed materials as much as possible. The boathouse was built on surplus floats that had been donated to the Port, lumber milled from trees logged for the boatyard expansion project, metal roofing reclaimed from the Old Fire Station, and by volunteers from the Old Retired Guys Sailing Club.   

We would like to thank the following programs for supporting the Toledo Community Boathouse by providing grant funds for operational expenses:​

  • Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
  • Ford Family Foundation
  • Northwest Area Foundation
  • Meyer Memorial Trust
  • Siletz Tribal Charitable Contribution Fund - Grant for kayaks, paddles, and equipment for instructional space
  • Pacific Coast Congress, Barbara Schwantes Memorial Fund - Grant for youth training kayaks
Two small sailboats on water with sailors inside, trees in the background, sunny day.

Free Family Boating 

Toledo Community Boathouse "Waterfront Recreation & Education Center" Free boating for all ages to try sailing, kayaking, other paddle crafts in a safe and supervised environment, and free rides on the Yaquina Queen, on Thursdays at 3pm to 6pm and on Sundays from 12pm to 4pm, Memorial Day through Labor Day annually. No experience necessary, life jackets, and all other equipment provided. Youth under the age of 10 must be accompanied by an adult.

A person sanding wood in a workshop filled with tools and machinery.

Boat Building

Toledo Community Boathouse
"Andrew Linn Boat Shop"
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The first boathouse serves primarily as a carpentry shop for boatbuilding.
Volunteers have built over 100 small wood boats here under direction of the former volunteer director Andrew Linn. Some of the canoes and kayaks are used by the boating program and others boats were sold to provide funds to purchase materials for the next boat building project. This shop is also used by the Teak Lady Society for its work to maintain and preserve the Port’s two Teak Lady sloops.